Show o J D DEPUTIES E P TIE S Sour r our AfTER a NEGROES y Indians Join Joir in iii j r Shoot Down Officers O at s Cabin yo Okla 1 March Deputy Sheriff SI anti and an assistant at atthe tho the head of twenty special 11 deputies left leCt today lO D for the Hickory camp campgrounds campgrounds grounds to disperse tho the one hundred 60 called Snake negroes from tosh Muskogee and arid Uk Ok counties are aro congregated COli threatening revenge upon tho the whites In the neighborhood It Is domed that there are any an Indians Involved All MI are said to be he negroes Last wn nIght ht the negroes raided the tho farms or Of 1 c white while C within a radius or our tour ouri i i miles of tho the camp and helped them themselves selves to food supplies There are arc conflicting stories concerning Iii days da B battle While It Is known a 1 doz dozen 7 en negroes wore were wounded In addition tp tO Timothy Fowler the aged white farmer who accompanied the posse on that th day da no dead bodies have havetHE haveThE tHE been recovered 10 Frank Swift a member of or the posse c of officers sent Bent to the home borne of o hitti a Harjo chief of or tho the Snake nake Clan or the Creek Indians to servo serve a n warrant on onT T the chief was not killed but probably I fatally wounded Herman ODell son of or the sheriff oi of county and Edward Laum Daum 13 city ell marshal of or were 31 killed outright Swit dragged 11 from the scone scene of the battle and was Wll lb I later Inter picked up by b William Carr Garr one ii of the tho escaping and taken to a 0 station a mile away Frank Krank I Jones another of tho the posse who es escaped boarded a train at Pierce and andI I ll went to early earl In the evening aft bearing sonic some details of ot tho the batUe batUc 2 The Tile officers having decided that the ii i Indians ln lans and the negroes were ngam peaceable after the battlo battle of or Thurs fiR morning mornIn approached the cabin oi t 4 r MaTjo 1 HIcl around f fear of trouble As they thoy were wore in the thenet thet net act of oC entering the Hie chiefs ehlers yard u t runs wore leveled tl upon ullon them as aJ many men In tho the house and around tho the corners ODell awl and Daum tell lead dead and Swift was seriously wound wounded ed Jones ran rull a few yards and hid himself in a chip clup or of trees until i iC C Indians disappeared Then I hen he lie return returned returned ed Cd to the bodies of his comrades find finding ing lag them thom dead he hurried to Pierce Within 30 minutes after the report of the battle reached Checotah a 1 hun hUIl hundred lititia a dred men inca were armed Every Even aall avail blo gun and tn practically all the th ammu ammunition In town were taken In an nn hour hourT T rio 0 men ero marching toward Hickory H Ick or orf f rv Ground When the tho news reached rc Mus Ius officers immediately Issued a call for mOil men and a short time later a aI aS S posse of 50 was ready to march I I 4 From and nH n will also ahO go tonight ht to the place selected for mobilization I t At 11 tonight Adjutant Gen oral rai Franl Canton ton of the Oklahoma ce e national guard has wired Colonel Roy RoyL L Hoffman of Chandler to Immediately call for companies of the state stale guard LI for mobilization Companies at Ok OJ Oklahoma lahoma ll City Chandler and Durant probably will depart for lion Hen lioni i neLLi tonight A dispatch from Checotah says sara the Snake Indians haVe hae been purchasing li and ammunition there for a lI 1 month and that they thc are aro supplied with Wll f powder and lead head enough to last two 11 r Harjo who has bas so o often within tho the thelast last two years cars expressed his displeasure ure nrc at al the Uio UI restrictions of oC law and who hay has hn often oHen called his m men n Into council connell for threatening officers of oC the law la IK Is IsI I d to have havo determine to make z a final stand In behalf of or his Ideas Ide of or liberty Ills Husband band have havo been outlaws V pi for years cars It IL required tho services of United States officers and the threat to call for tho state militia to quell his hiI baud band last fall tall during durinS a 1 session of the council at Hickory Ground I When Sheriff ODell receded f from froni the tho district clerk at Eufala today loday a aJ warrant for the arrest of Harjo tho J clerk cleric admonished him that he ho would be lw troublesome The Tho negroes arc cowards s said ODell and there Is no danger danser Officers OJ rom rout Henrietta visited Hick Hickory ory 01 Ground today todar and found It practically I deserted They Tho returned late Into I this afternoon and reported that U lat four Cour negroes killed In Ute the fight of Thurs Thursday I lay day da morning were burled today toda A telephone from Crom Pierce a 0 railway station one mIle from rom Hickory Ground at 2 this morning states that three hundred armed men aro are mobilized there in readiness lor for a daybreak attack The Snakes have havo retreated to the timber a 1 mile to tim tho rear of Chitti homo home The dead lead bodies of or the tho officers are lying 11 ng In yard ard none no no or the themen themen men daring to lo go near there thero before I daybreak The Tho dispatch says that tUat nothing save a miracle will prevent a daj daybreak break attack negroes are aro known to be armed It Is IB reported that one Indian was killed and several wounded In the tho baUle battle last night nightA A dispatch from Henrietta says that Harjo himself was wounded Five companies of or state militia have havo I f boon been ordered to the scene Special trains are being provided at Chand Chandler Ch nd ler her Oklahoma City Muskogee Shaw neo flee and Durant DuranL Colonel Roy Hoy Ho HoU Hoff Hoffman I man Is in command |